Chapter 424 Gold Award

Tao Zhe has been in Los Angeles all year round and is very familiar with Zhou Yan's reputation in Los Angeles.

It is no exaggeration to say that Zhou Yan should be the most famous Chinese musician in Los Angeles in recent years, and can even be said to be the most famous Asian musician.

"Actually, it wasn't written specifically for them."

"Well, I know, the two songs sung by Mariah Carey were both used in the soundtrack of the movie Sense and Sensibility, while the songs sung by the Backstreet Boys were both commercial songs." Tao Zhe said with a smile.

Zhou Yan didn't expect that he knew the songs written by Tao Zhe quite well.

"Yes, mainly they also sing very well."

"Of course they sing well, but the most important thing is the high quality of the songs. Although Mariah Carey is already very popular, the two songs "young and beautiful" and "someo like you" can be said to be her most popular songs. The two highest original songs. Before I left Los Angeles, "Someone Like You" was still at the top of the list, and it might not be able to go down for a while. It might break the previous record she set. "

"Also." Tao Zhe continued, "The same goes for the songs written for the Backstreet Boys. Although the song "We Are Young" may be a little worse than "Someone Like You" in terms of statistics, it is actually just as popular. I often Being able to hear this song outdoors.”

Zhou Yan nodded. Tao Zhe was right. In comparison, "We Are Young" obviously has more application scenarios and is particularly suitable for creating atmosphere.

I heard that the Backstreet Boys are holding a concert now. When they sing this song, the atmosphere at the venue is particularly good. It is also the song with the loudest voice during the chorus.

Of course, the loudness of the chorus is limited to the chorus.

As for the speed of the verse, many fans can't keep up.

"Are you spending most of your time in Los Angeles now?" Zhou Yan asked.

Tao Zhe nodded, "Well, I still spend most of my time in Los Angeles, but starting next year, I may come back more often."

"Does that mean that after you sign with us, your album will be produced in the United States?"

"It should be. I have a recording studio at home in Los Angeles, and I usually record things there. Many of the songs I wrote for other singers were recorded in that recording studio."

After hearing what Tao Zhe said, Zhou Yan was not prepared to interfere. He still adopted a free-range approach towards Tao Zhe, and everything depended on Tao Zhe's own development.

All he can do is provide a platform and resources. As for how the album will be recorded, it depends on Tao Zhe himself.

However, he still mentioned, "If you feel that the recording studio conditions at home are not good enough, you can go back to Taiwan, or to the mainland, or directly go to Tomson's office in Los Angeles. Tomson's office in Los Angeles is now open A pretty good recording studio, you can use it anytime you want.”

Tomson's music industry basically revolves around Zhou Yan, so if Zhou Entertainment wants to use their studio, there will naturally be no problem.

In Tao Zhe's own studio, it would be okay to record a demo when writing songs for other singers, but it would be almost impossible to record an album.

In fact, Xu Feng had talked with Zhou Hong before, and Zhou's Entertainment could cooperate with Tomson in music.

Phantom Sound can outsource all movie-related business to Tomson.

For example, if you want to insert a song into a certain movie, you can contact the singers from Phantom Music, such as Wu Bai, Wang Lihong or Mayday.

After the two parties got online, all the handover work was left to Tomson. After all, Tomson has sufficient experience in movies. Phantom Sound only needs to be responsible for providing works that meet the conditions.

And Tomson can also hand over part of the business of their music department to Phantom Music. For example, they signed Akina Nakamori, and when Akina Nakamori releases a new album, Phantom Music can help with marketing and promotion, or even directly help her release it. .

This time in Taiwan, Nakamori Akina's new song promotion was completely left to Phantom Sound.

Of course, these cooperation contents are not the main ones.

What Xu Feng wants is that Zhou can cooperate with Tomson and enter the European and American markets together. Later, Tomson's offices in Europe and the United States may be run by Zhou and Tomson together.

This can save Zhou the manpower and material resources to expand the territory, and can also share the pressure and risks for Tomson. Otherwise, it would be a waste to open so many offices based on Tomson's own business.

Especially the music section, such as the recording studio in the Los Angeles office, is rarely used, which is really a waste.

The cooperation between the two parties is more like a kind of resource integration.

Because of Zhou Yan's existence, it is much simpler for both parties to integrate resources, because both Xu Feng and Zhou Hong invest in Zhou Yan's development regardless of cost.

Needless to say, Zhou Hong is his brother after all.

As for Xu Feng, first of all, she is not short of money, and secondly, Zhou Yan's movies have made her a lot of money, so she is also willing to spend some "unjust money" for Zhou Yan's music.

Of course, even if Xu Feng had the idea of ​​​​spending money, Tomson Music was indeed not very successful, but they still made a lot of money in the music sector with Zhou Yan's strong personal ability.

Tao Zhe was also very happy to hear that there was a recording studio available in Los Angeles. "I was also struggling with this matter before. Although I have a recording studio at home, the conditions are not very good. Especially in the summer, it is very hot and stuffy. I It would be nice to have a professional recording studio in there, often in just a pair of underwear.”

"The conditions of Tomson's recording studio in Los Angeles are not particularly good, but it is definitely much better than the one at your home. At least it is air-conditioned and you don't have to wear just a pair of underwear." Zhou Yan said with a smile.

"I'm already looking forward to it."

"I'll contact them tonight and then give you their address and contact number. After I get to Los Angeles, you can contact them directly. But before that, you'd better sign the contract with Phantom."

"No problem. Once the contract is drawn up, I can sign it if there are no problems." Tao Zhe said cheerfully.

Today's meeting with Zhou Yan exceeded Tao Zhe's expectations in every aspect.

Thinking of this, Tao Zhe was secretly glad that he had rejected major record companies like Rolling Stone and Sony before, otherwise he would have missed out on Phantom Music.

Not only can Phantom Sound meet his conditions, but their own strength is not weak either.

Although Phantom Music has only been established for a short period of time and the company has few signed singers, Phantom Music has made great achievements.

Wubai, which became popular this year, proved that Phantom has sufficient packaging and marketing capabilities.

Helping Akina Nakamori release her new song "Snow Flower" in Taiwan, which also made Phantom Sound active in front of the public.

At least compared to the kind of grass-roots teams that are everywhere in Taiwan, Huanyin's strength is much stronger.

…

The three of them chatted until noon, had a meal together, and then Zhou Yan left.

Tao Zhe did not leave, but stayed in the company, waiting to sign the contract in the afternoon.

When Zhou Yan returned home, Wang Zuxian was sitting on the sofa reading a book. When Zhou Yan came back, she smiled and asked, "How is it? Did the newcomer win it?"

"Yeah, I got it."

"Did he impose any harsh conditions?"

Wang Zuxian was also curious about what kind of conditions Tao Zhe would offer. After all, Xu Xiangjie said that Tao Zhe had rejected major record companies like Rolling Stone and Sony.

"No, his conditions are nothing to us. There are only two conditions in total. One is not to let us interfere with his creation, and the second is not to press him to release an album."

Hearing these two conditions, Wang Zuxian laughed and said, "This is indeed not a condition for you."

Although Wang Zuxian didn't know much about Zhou Entertainment and Phantom Sound, she knew Zhou Yan and knew that Zhou Yan generally would not interfere in the creation of his singers, let alone urge them to release albums. No. 43 Baojia Street is a vivid example.

However, these two conditions are indeed difficult for the major record companies to agree to.

Zhou Yan walked over to Wang Zuxian and sat down, "I'm going back to Yanjing tomorrow morning, are you sure you don't want to come with me?"

"I want to be with you too, but there is an event to attend in two days. I have to attend that event first, and then I can go." Wang Zuxian put down the book in his hand, leaned his head on Zhou Yan's arms, and murmured, " You go back first, I will go there by myself in a few days.”

"The post-production of the movie cannot be delayed, otherwise I can stay here for a while."

"It doesn't matter, work is important."

"Well, waiting for you..."

As soon as Zhou Yan opened his mouth, the mobile phone in his bag rang.

It was Xu Xiangjie calling.

"Teacher Zhou, have you arrived at your residence?"

Zhou Yan asked doubtfully, "Here we are, why did you call suddenly? Is there something wrong with Tao Zhe?"

"No, I'm calling to tell you some good news. I just got a call from Shanghai. The results of the first national film music competition have been announced. "Spring of the Cowherd Class" won the gold medal."

"Oh, it's a gold medal."

Zhou Yan was slightly surprised. He knew that "Spring of the Cowherd Class" would definitely win a prize, but he didn't expect that the jury would directly award the gold medal to this film. After all, he himself did not go to the scene.

In fact, there is no problem at all for the jury to award the film an excellence award.

However, Zhou Yan didn't feel much about receiving this award, because it had no gold content at all.

Although this selection is quite famous, it is nationwide, and it is the first time, but the organizer is the Shanghai Filmmakers Association, and there was not much early publicity, so many people did not know about this selection at all.

The popularity of this selection is not as high as that of some local film festivals, but the name sounds loud and clear.

"What Tomson means is that they hope we can help publicize this selection." Xu Xiangjie said.

Zhou Yan nodded, and Tang Chen's thoughts were understandable.

Although this selection is not very valuable, after all, the name is quite impressive and it is convenient for publicity.

Especially here in Taiwan, people don't know what the level of this selection is. As long as they see the word "national" in the selection, they will feel that it is awesome.

Perhaps this is why the organizers insisted on awarding the award to Zhou Yan even though he was not present.

They can use Zhou Yan and "Spring of the Cowherd Class" to increase the popularity and gold content of their selection.

This year’s selection is not prestigious or popular, but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen next year.

Maybe if it does well this year, it will become more popular next year.

"You don't need to ask me about this matter. You can just report it to Xu Junrong."

"Understood, I will contact Mr. Xu immediately. Teacher Zhou, congratulations on winning the gold medal."

"Thank you."

Joey Wong had been craning her neck to listen, but she only heard one gold award.

"What gold award?"

"It's the national film music selection I told you about a few days ago. The Chorus won the gold award."

"Wow, so impressive, the gold award should be the highest award, right?"

"Well, in this selection, the best are the gold, silver and bronze awards, and there are also excellent awards, special judges awards, etc."

"The judges have good vision. The Chorus is completely worthy of this award. It's a pity that you don't have time to receive the award."

"It's not a pity. There will be more and more such awards in the future. I can't receive every one of them."

Joey Wong smiled and pouted, "If others heard this, they would definitely want to beat you up."

...

The fact that The Chorus won the first national film music award quickly spread across the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong, faster than Zhou Yan expected.

Although Xu Xiangjie told him that he would promote this matter, Zhou Yan didn't expect the publicity effect to be so good.

When he returned to Yanjing, he heard from Liu Qing and others that they often saw this news on TV and in newspapers these days.

Two days later, Wang Zuxian called him again and said that she also saw the news on TV.

Wang Zuxian also saw a newspaper that gave this news a large page. Not only did it mention that "The Chorus" won the gold medal in the first national film music selection, but it also mentioned that "Sense and Sensibility" won the Oscar for Best Original Score.

This news is marketing copywriting at first glance, probably written by Huanyin and Tang Chen.

They also knew that just saying that the strength of the national film music selection was not enough, and they also mentioned that Zhou Yan won the Oscar for Best Original Score, which was a bit like tying the two awards together.

When ordinary readers see such news, they will immediately associate the national film music selection with the Oscar for Best Original Score.

Those who can win the Oscar for Best Original Score will naturally win other awards.

This logic is unreasonable, but readers will think so. This is the charm of journalism.

In other words, it was Zhou Yan who raised the status of this selection.

The Shanghai Film Association originally wanted this effect, and now it has achieved its goal.

After the first national film music selection was completed, the organizers felt that this was the first and most likely the last session.

Because the effect of the first session was not good, the popularity did not rise, and the award ceremony was also deserted, with few people attending.

But now because of Zhou Yan, the popularity has suddenly risen, causing the organizers to have confidence in the second session.

According to this trend, the next session can be held next year. (End of this chapter)